Making a Difference

The Children’s Environmental Health Sciences Core Center supports collaborative research among basic, clinical and public health investigators in order to understand the development of reproductive and childhood diseases in relation to known or suspected environmental determinants.

Investigators convert scientific understanding into effective strategies to prevent environmentally-dependent childhood disease. Additionally, the Center’s community outreach arm aims to educate local and regional communities about the burden of environmentally-related reproductive and childhood diseases and effective ways to reduce them.

October 2014 -- The Children's Environmental Health Network convened a historic meeting of diverse visionary leaders, including the Center's Director of the Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core, Dr. Ruth Etzel, to chart a renewed vision and blueprint for protecting children's environmental health. Collaboratively, these leaders drafted a dynamic vision statement calling for transformative change through renewed and collective action to provide all children with the protections from harm that they deserve.Read the Vision Statement here >>

Both new and returning metro-Milwaukee science teachers attended a 4.5 day SEPA hands-on summer workshop beginning on August 18, 2014 to learn about a number of modules that will be incorporated into their classroom instruction during the upcoming school year. Topics will include modules on zebrafish, earthworms, and fathead minnows. There willalso be sessions on environmental health concepts, using technology, and teaching students how to write and review scientific papers and create research posters.Read more about the SEPA program here >>